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Marinade’s Stake Auction Marketplace enters Phase 2, unlocking higher rewards for Solana stakers through live validator bids.

Marinade is evolving and improving. Learn more about Marinade v2 in this article.

Clients of the leading qualified custodian can now trade and hold mSOL, a Solana liquid staking token, from their Coinbase Prime accounts.

Read more about the next steps for Protected Staking Rewards

Learn more about the details of Marinade Earn Season 2

Learn more about what Marinade has been working on to protect the staking rewards of their stakers.

Marinade Earn season is here, read this article to learn more about this new incentive program.

Marinade Native, an innovative staking product on Solana, surpasses 1.8 million SOL stake in its first month

Learn more about Marinade's new product, Marinade Native.

Marinade is evolving and growing, read more in this article.

Discover Marinade's newly released product!

Marinade just released a new version of its delegation strategy. Learn more about everything that changed.

Marinade has released a detailed dashboard for validators and Solana stakers to make the staking experience more transparent for everyone.

All 3,333 octopuses have been minted, it's now time for Shark NFTs!

Marinade recently released a new product in order to unlock stake currently held by validators and used to run their nodes.

Discover the latest feature on Marinade that allows you to unstake directly from a stake account

Snowflake announces its new product integrating mSOL!

Solana DeFi enthusiasts, Marinade is pleased to announce Zaps, an update to the app that introduces smarter, higher-performance DeFi to your wallet’s positions.

Through the token exchange, Marinade is aligning with a collection of key builders across the Solana ecosystem.

Greetings Marinade family, I am Data, your new Community Manager and I’m delighted to be joining you all in the kitchen.

Marinade’s new Head of Governance shares the latest in the DAO’s on-chain voting.

With tremendous joy, the Marinade Chefs are pleased to officially announce the next chapter: the beginning of on-chain governance for Marinade DAO.

This letter serves to announce, in a transparent and public way, Marinade’s intent to exchange a portion of the DAO treasury among the builders of Solana to promote alignment and accelerate decentralized governance.

Now that Marinade has revealed its grand menu for 2022,it is time to focus on the latest details surrounding MNDE, the governance token.

Communities that play together, stay together. And fortunately for Marinade, being part of the Solana ecosystem means a growing number of thrilling and social metaverse and P2E Games and NFT opportunities to deliver to our Marinators.

One of the main features of the mSOL token since the launch of Marinade Finance is its wide adoption throughout Solana’s growing DeFi ecosystem.

In the coming weeks, we’re launching our new brand that represents our warm, strong and diversified community. You might have already seen bits and pieces of it here and there, in our Twitter announcements, as stickers in our Discord, or in other places of the Marinade universe. As you read this article, we’re in the midst of preparing to roll out our website and we wanted to share more about what’s happening and why.

NFTs have generated a lot of hype these past few months with many projects selling out while growing huge treasuries from minting and royalties on secondary sales.

Marinade's Bug Bounty program is officialy launched!

Marinade is pleased to announce that it will be sponsoring a new mSOL/USD Chainlink price feed on the Solana Blockchain.

While it’s only been a month since the start, we have all witnessed the exciting growth of Marinade

Learn the basics of staking on Solana, including how to start, the differences between native and liquid staking, and the role of validators. Discover how Marinade offers unique benefits for maximizing rewards and minimizing risks in the Solana ecosystem.

Monitoring validators can be a complex task, which is why using an automated staking product makes sense for most Solana stakers!

Staking on Solana and on Ethereum is similar but there are some key differences

In the wake of the FTX/Alameda collapse, let's assess where Marinade stands.

Network upgrades on Solana introduce the possibility of priority transactions. Introducing mTransactions by Marinade. Here's how it works.

Learn more about what MEV is in this second part of Marinade's MEV series!

A brief presentation of MEV on Solana and Marinade's plan for the future.

Read more about how UdderChaos leverages the Marinade gauges to run a profitable validator on Solana.

As of August 2, 2022, Marinade’s liquid staking dApp has officially celebrated its one one-year anniversary operating its mainnet on Solana!

From the very beginning, Marinade has been committed to Solana decentralization. It’s a core goal of our 2022 roadmap and will even drive governance festivals.

Marinade is on a mission to make Solana open, decentralized and secure. To succeed, Marinade itself must also become decentralized.

Marinade recently blew past $300M in TVL and is nearing 3M SOL staked. While it might seem like rapid growth — and it certainly is — let’s take a closer look.

It’s been more than a month now since we launched the devnet version of Marinade — liquid staking for Solana.

In March, Marinade.finance participated in the Solana x Serum DeFi hackathon. As a result, we’ve been able to deliver working prototype of a liquid staking solution for Solana (SOL) tokens.

You wonder how liquidity pools work or how to make them work to your advantage? Marinade created this article to explain in-depth everything you need to know.

Learn how to use Marinade in the safest way using a Ledger wallet

Robinhood centralized exchange just announced SOL trading. Here is how easy it is to start earning staking rewards on your tokens.

Marinade has an important and symbiotic relationship with the validator community. Marinade needs strong, geographically-distributed validators to ensure the decentralization of Solana and validators can benefit by receiving delegated stake from Marinade. Marinade currently delegates stake across over 450 validators and aims to incentivize the growth of the validator set through distributing even more SOL stake as it grows.

Solana’s SOL token has enjoyed a wide adoption throughout crypto since its launch thanks to its ease of use, its expanding utility and growing ways to earn yield.

How Solana compares to other proof-of-stake blockchains. Where should you stake your crypto?

Discover the Lucky Stake validator operator with Marinade

Get to know The Lotus Validator, launched by a NFT community

Meet Staking Facilities, one of the biggest validator running on Solana

Learn more about Avaulto, one of the early validators of Solana

On April 30th, the validators of Solana stepped out of the shadows and for a brief moment, the eyes of crypto were upon them.

Validators are the hidden stars of the Solana Blockchain. Together they make up a growing network of 1,500-plus nodes around the world that validate block after block and ensure the security and censorship resistance of over 60,000 transactions per second.

What drives Solana’s prosperity as a leading, mass-adopted Layer-1 blockchain? Its novel Proof-of-History design that enables lightning fast transactions at an unmatched scale of 65,000 transactions per second.

Discover the latest in Marinade news, including institutional developments, ecosystem partnerships, the inaugural Stakepoint conference, and more!

Discover the latest in Marinade news, including the new website, SAM participation update, Marinade Earn Season 3 rewards, and more!

Explore the exciting updates in Marinade v2, featuring native staking, Protected Staking Rewards (PSR), and the Stake Auction Marketplace (SAM), enhancing SOL staking.

Read more about the upcoming Marinade Earn Season

Read the latest Marinade DAO monthly updates for May, 2024.

Marinade plays a key role in the ecosystem as a public good for Solana.

Read more about what happened in April in the kitchen.

Read more about what happened in the kitchen throughout March.

Read more about what happened in the kitchen during the shortest month of the year.

Read the latest updates on the upcoming changes to Marinade

Read the Marinade monthly report to learn what happened throughout January.

Read more about what happened in the kitchen in December!

Learn more about what happened in the kitchen over the month of November.

Read the latest updates from the Marinade DAO

Learn more about the smart contract upgrade that Marinade has been working on

Marinade Native makes it possible for anyone to benefit from an optimized delegation strategy

Read the summary of what happened in the kitchen during the month of September!

Marinade will be moving the upgrade authority of its main smart contract to MNDE holders

Read more about what happened in the Kitchen over the month of August!

Read more about what happened in the Kitchen during the busy month of July.

June has been a busy month for Marinade and Solana DeFi! Read more about what happened in our Kitchen stories.

Discover the new product built on top of mSOL by the Drift team

Read more about what happened in the Kitchen this month.

Read more about what happened in the kitchen in April!

Read more about what happened in the Kitchen during March.

Read more about what happened in the Kitchen over February!

Read more about how Marinade tokenomics will evolve going forward.

Read more about what happened in the Kitchen in January!

Marinade launches the Open Doors program to power DeFi and mSOL growth and distribute Marinade ownership to builders over 2023

Check out what happened in the Kitchen during the last month of 2022!

Read more about what happened in the Kitchen during the month of November!

A lot happened in the Kitchen during the month of October, let's recap everything!

Read more about what happened in the Kitchen during the month of September!

Read about what happened in the Kitchen during the month of August!

It’s the middle of summer, the weather is hot and the barbecue grills fired up. July at Marinade was an eventful one, and for some team members included more travel to Solana Hacker Houses at Paris and then on to Krakow to start August.

A lot has happened around Solana the first half of the year. Marinade shares its progress to goals and updates its mission.

June has been a packed month for the Marinade team! Get all the updates and news that you might have missed this month in the Marinade Kitchen Stories!

An eventful month of May has passed and it’s time for the Chefs to summarize the latest news and developments in the kitchen as well as some highlights across the Marinade and Solana ecosystem.

Hackathons are near and dear to the Marinade Chefs. As you may remember, Marinade itself was born out of the Solana x Serum DeFi Hackathon in March, 2021. So it was an honor to sponsor a prize and judge the 2022 Solana Riptide Hackathon.

As the calendar turns to May it’s time to update everyone on what happened during the last month in the Kitchen, and it’s an understatement to say that things happened!

It has been more than a month since our last Kitchen updates and we know that you are always curious to learn more about Marinade and the work that is being done in the Kitchen. For this reason, it’s time to dive into what happened this past month!

The Chefs have returned with an update on all things Marinade. The amount of building and milestones across Solana continues to persevere.

Time flies way too fast in crypto. So making long-term projections or a multi-year roadmap doesn’t work.

February may be the year’s shortest month, but in the Solana world, you can jam what feels like a month’s worth of big news into just one week.

Marinade is entering February in building mode but also with a sense of reflection. It was less than a year ago at the Solana x Serum DeFi IGNITION Hackathon when the Marinade vision began.

It’s been an exciting and busy January in the kitchen, highlighted by a wave of partnership and integrations announced and launched.

Happy New Year from Marinade! I hope you all enjoyed your winter break and came back fully rested and ready to attack what is a promising 2022.

In DeFi, smart contracts are often created with an authority able to apply modifications to the code, a feature that might be crucial in the future of a protocol.

With our team growing larger, we started feeling the need to communicate more efficiently between the different workgroups and to our users

A lot has happened in the past few weeks around Marinade, so it’s about time to give a summary

On October 15th, Marinade organized its first AMA (Ask me anything).

More than 2 million SOL is now being staked through Marinade Finance, and the cooks are extremely happy for the trust and participation from all the stakers who took part. We are finally ready to launch our main course: MNDE. Here’s what to expect from the token distribution and what you need to know.

On the 2nd of August 2021, we pressed the button and launched Marinade, the liquid staking for Solana, on mainnet.

We get it. You must be quite hungry by now. We’ve been promising the launch of liquid staking for Solana on Mainnet since March

Collaboration over competition is one of the best way to reach success

Discover how treasuries can maximize returns and minimize risks by integrating Marinade’s secure, high-yield staking solutions for SOL assets.

Learn how wallets can enhance user experience by integrating Marinade’s staking solutions for secure, high-yield SOL rewards and increased liquidity.

Discover how crypto exchanges can integrate Marinade's staking solutions to offer secure, high-yield SOL rewards and boost trading activity.

Explore how custodians can leverage Marinade's staking solutions to provide secure, high-yield rewards on SOL tokens for their clients.